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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsWilliam Michael Steiner, Steven Dale Sawyer, Craig Miles Smith, Leonid Boris Sheikman, Vernon Evans Martin, Craig Ernest Leighty
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A transponder card for a nuclear reactor control rod drive control system is provided. The control system includes a control processor and a plurality of electrical devices operationally coupled to the control processor. The transponder card is configured to receive commands from the control processor, energize an appropriate electrical device when commanded, detect a failure in control circuitry of the transponder card, send a failure alarm, and remove power from an electrical device during a control circuitry failure event when there is no command to energize the electrical device.
A transponder card for a nuclear reactor control rod drive control system, the control system comprising a control processor and a plurality of electrical devices operationally coupled to the control processor, said transponder card configured to:
A nuclear reactor control rod drive control system, the nuclear reactor comprising a plurality of control rods, said control system comprising:
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